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Break Through Chinese Pronunciation 3 – The -e sound

Hi everybody this is Chris, for the third part of Break Through Chinese Pronunciation: the video series that breaks down Mandarin sounds and tones, and helps you to perfect your Mandarin Chinese pronunciation.

In this video we’re going to be looking at the letter E in Pinyin.

If you just saw an -e in English, you would think this is pronounced e, but it’s actually pronounced ‘e’, like ‘er’ you don’t know what you want to say, or something looks pretty disgusting to you and you just want to say ‘uhhh’.